My boss at the hair salon just let me know today that this is my last week working. The salon is tanking and I'm one of the most expensive investments he has with it right now. So as of Friday I will be unemployed. I've already started to put in job applications. I have an interview tomorrow as well. However I do need to have some sort of income. So Commissions are still open!! PM ME!

Here is my list. Its nice and simple.

$3 - Tink commission
$5 - Sketch
$10 - Ink
$15 - traditional color
$20 - Digital

If there are multiple characters, the price might go up a bit more. It depends on what exactly you want.

Here is my list. Its nice and simple.

$3 - Tink commission
$5 - Sketch
$10 - Ink
$15 - traditional color
$20 - Digital

If there are multiple characters, the price might go up a bit more. It depends on what exactly you want. All transactions will be done through my PayPay which is sinner.mcmanus[at]hotmail.com

I hadn't forgotten this account. I just kinda grew away from Anthro for a bit. But I'm getting back into a bit with the help of my friend Paco. God I love him so much. He only ever wants me to draw him as an anthro wolf so that helps. Once I get this gallery back up and running then I will be putting up my tiny little commission list. I'm trying to get another job but right now I'm lucky if I get ten hours at my current job and that equals out to about sixty dollars a week. I can't live on that. So yes. Enjoy the stuff I'm gonna post for now and I will hopefully post anthro here this weekend or next week.

<3
The Sinner

moms home. dont know much more then that in all honesty

As most of my friends on here know, my mom was diagnosed with ms two years ago. We had a flood here bout three weeks ago that flooded my parents basement with groundwater instead of river water. She spent so much time trying to clean the mess and not sleeping that she got CO2 poisoning and then she got pneumonia. The last two weeks shes been getting progressively worse. I got a phone call bout half an hour ago. When i looked at my caller id it said "Dads cell phone". That sent a red flag up cause even if it is my dad calling me he usually uses my mom's cell in addition to the time of night. He was calling me to inform me that my mother was admitted to the hospital cause she had complications with her breathing. Dad didn't know if she was even going to be ok or not. He said that we just had to hope so.

After five days my internet is back on. We never got any water or lost power here but we lost internet. My parents basement flooded not with river water but ground water. My uncle david had to send up a pump truck to pump out their basement and the neighbors basements cause the town of Vestal refused. They've managed to save most of what was in the basement cept for the toys they bought the kids for the holidays and birthdays. Adam's parents are safe. They were almost evacuated but the flood wall held up. Kyle and Dave are both homeless. Dave lived in Conklin and Kyle lived in West Corners. Candace and her four children were in Binghamton but were far enough away from any water to not worry. All my other friends were pretty much safe too.

My salon didn't flood and only one of the stylists had to be evacuated. For more i suppose you all could just go to facebook and click flood of 2011 in the search bar.

Right now my apartment is an island. Most of my county has flooded. The national guard set up a shelter next to my building so im prolly safe

It is official. My mother in law is buying me and the hubby tickets to comic con in october. One of my idols, Frank Miller, is gonna be there and it is going to be epic. I'm gonna be going with at least Paco and Jen (http://kittynakajima.deviantart.com). Just gotta find out what which is cheaper, renting a car or taking the bus. I also have to make a run to Ocean City New Jersey to drop the kids off with my mother in law to watch for the weekend.

EEEEeee!! I'm working on a special sketchbook to take with me so that I can take it to the portfolio advice section.

Watching the avatar hustler porn. Just got internet installed. So happy.

Adam and I have beaten every part of Gears of War 2 except the online stuff. This cause we don't have the wifi connection for the xbox. However, we have all the other achievements. Two days again, we put the disk in after not paying for a while. My profile is fine and when i go into the war journal it shows the achievements and what I had unlocked. Adams for some reason has pulled all of his achievements and his unlockables. He is back to being a lvl 1 when he was at lvl 30. The game is starting to give him the pop ups that only show up when the game thinks that you haven't played it before. Confused by this I sent an email to microsoft via their support website. I explained the situation as I just did now. I also pointed out that his gamer score is fine and does still show the achievements there. Its just on the actual game that it doesn't.

What follows is the messages back and forth i have gotten:

Xbox Customer Support
to me

show details Aug 18 (1 day ago)
Hello Sara,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft online support for XBOX. I am Rhian and I will be helping you today with this issue.

We received your email and as I understand that you did not receive credit for an achievement after unlocking the achievement in a game on your Xbox Live enabled profile.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you have felt regarding this matter.

Unfortunately, we at Microsoft cannot verify whether your gamerscore was tallied correctly or make a correction. If you think that you unlocked an achievement and did not receive the appropriate credit to your gamerscore, we suggest that you try to unlock the achievement again.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

If you need to reply to this e-mail, please reply 'with history' (include any previous e-mail) or reference to Service Request Number 1137228151 so we can expedite our service to you.

Thank you for visiting Xbox.com. If you should have future questions on Xbox products or services, please be sure to revisit our Web site as we are continually adding information to enhance our service.

Best Regards,
Rhian
Microsoft XBOX Support Services
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My reply to which to try to better explain the problem:
Sara Standish
to Xbox

show details Aug 18 (1 day ago)

In regards to service request number 1137228151,

The gamer score has the credit for the achievements but the problem is that when he goes back into the game he got the achievements from (gears of war 2) the game doesn't register it. For instance, the achievement for "party like its 1999" means you have to get a certain type of kill 1999 times. He had almost a thousand but now the game doesn't register this saved data and has him back at 0. But when I go in on my profile it still shows my 349 kills that go towards the 1999. Thats what we are worried about. His gamer score is fine. Its just the saved data on the game has gone missing and considers him to be playing this particular game for the very first time even though he has beaten it on all difficulties.


Their reply:


Xbox Customer Support
to me

show details 11:02 PM (13 hours ago)


Hello Sara!

Thank you for contacting Microsoft online support for XBOX. I am Jay and I will be helping you today with this issue.

We received your email and we appreciate you taking the time to write us with your concerns and value you as an Xbox Customer. I understand that you have concerns about your achievements.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience that you have.

There are certain levels in a game that you need to complete in order to gain achievements. One possible reason that you do not get the overall achievements in a game is that you have probably skipped one certain level of the game. What you can do is to check your previous game or level of the game if you have completed the mission. You can also check your game manuals for tips and tricks and you can also visit our website for the tips and tricks.

If you need to reply to this e-mail, please reply 'with history' (include any previous e-mail) so we can expedite our service to you. To expedite service, please provide Service Request Number 1137228151 when you reply.

Thank you for visiting Xbox.com. If you should have future questions on Xbox products or services, please be sure to revisit our Web site as we are continually adding information to enhance our service.

Best Regards,
Jay
Microsoft Xbox Support Services
[link]




Anyone else notice that they aren't even reading the emails? If they had been reading them they would have noticed that this advice has nothing to do with the problem. I mean Adam has a gamer score of 17014. I think the advice they have given is more those who have never even held a controller till now. I'm gonna try this one more time and I'm not going to be so nice about it. We think though if we can hook up to xbox live it might fix the problem. Just frustrating.

I've always wanted to get into commissions but right now i'm missing some key parts.

Part one: paypal account
Part two: scanner
Part three: art program (I lost my copy of paint shop pro seven way way way back in the day)
Part four: tablet

God I need a new job but first I gotta wait for my surgery to be done. I'm getting myself fixed lol

I finally get a good idea in my head for my art and RAGH! Art block attacks again....It always hits the same way. I can no longer draw the character that is me. Which of course is Hex. Now I love my Hex but for some reason she is being difficult with wanting to be drawn. I just dunno. Dunno what to do. Tried watching movies. Tried listening to music. Tried not to think too much into what i was drawing. Any suggestions?

Today Danu asked about Chewy. First time since she's been home. Adam and I looked at her and I said, "He's not here, baby girl. He's with great great grandma. They're playing and having a grand ol' time." She looked at us and then nodded saying, "He be back." Tears started up in my eyes at this and I said, "No...no, honey, he's not. He's in heaven, just like great great grandma." She tilted her head to the side and then let out a happy squeal and ran away. I don't know if she was able to actually understand what I told her but she is pretty smart for her age. Guess we'll have to see.

I do miss that little dog....about as much as I miss my great grandmother.......

My jack russell pug mix died today....tuesday he fell down the stairs and i didn't have money for the vets so we tried to make him comfortable.....he started to recover and then today he just took a turn for the worse....My poor Chewbacca...My daughter is out of town...Dunno what I will tell her when she comes home

Thats right lol. Life is pretty bumpy what with no job and such but doing good. Doing damn good. Me and the hubby are trying to get our buisness put together. I'm working on a few murals for the inside of it and such. Got a whole new art style. Im back in touch with my good friend, The Paco. He is just so awesome lol. He's running a dungeon and dragon style rp game for super heros. I'm a water mutant. RAHR! lol Before I officially start work I gotta go have surgery. This baby factory is officially closed now that Vincent is a year and Danu is three. Gonna have my tubes tied, burned cut and whatever else they can do to them.

UUmmmm so year just gotta get my scanner up and running but my desk is blocked by heirloom furniture. My great grandmother, the matriarch of my family, passed away the end of june and I got most of her furniture so I have to re design my whole apartment now. So if anyone knows a good bird artist I'm looking to get a tiny red cardinal for my shoulder that is going to say "December 24th 1914 Helen Teel June 29th 2010". I miss her day in and day out. She was a very strong and gentle woman. Not really religious but I know that she's in heaven and she's got her own mansion up there and that they now have the best cook, seamstress and quilter in the entire world helping them out.

Now that I have had a week of dealing with the sudden loss of my job, I'm starting to get my life back in order. Me and my husband found a new place to live. It is still a three bedroom but it is much smaller then any of the three bedrooms we have lived in before. Guess that happens when you are poor.

Mom is doing fairly well, recovering from her month of leaking spinal fluid. Her MS medication came in the mail last week. She used to be an RN and so she wanted the kind you can measure yourself. Then I brought up a good point of what if she is having an episode. The only other person in the household with that kind of knowledge is my brother and he works all day for the state. This means that if he has to go to albany that day then he has to go which is two hours away from my parents house. So against her wishes she did get the premeasured syringes. I just feel better knowing that if my dad or me or my husband or whoever was there with her if it happens can help her without injury to her.

My son, Vincent, turns a year old this friday. He's getting so big, He is almost as tall as his two and half year old sister, Danu. He's babbling and trying to walk but prefers crawling since it is a faster means of transportation. Luckily where we are moving to, alot of our friends who have children live in the area so it will be nice for the kids to have other children to play with.

Artwise, I'm also trying to get that back on track. I used to only draw at work cause it was the only time i had a chance to concentrate. Now I'm gonna have to try to find time at home or at whatever new job i get. What is really ironic is I'm trying to get a job at the porn shop. The way i see it is i can still draw at work, even porn, and not get in trouble for it lol

Yesterday they fire me and today is my birthday. Yay for fuckin me....*goes off to social services*

Wow its been a while. I finally got internet back up and running. I also got my taxes back recently so I'm thinking of getting a few commissions done because well, I need to decorate my house. I just got a new laptop which is super smexy and now i just need a new scanner and i will be good to go after i get a work area as well.

Life has had a lot of ups and downs lately. My son is doing fairly well though he does have a heart condition. He's going to be a year in a couple of weeks. My mom was diagnosed last month with MS so we have been trying our best to help her out. Danu is getting ready to go to school come august/september. My husband is really good too. Hes been really great with helping my mom.

I found out that i need a new scanner. So instead of drawing at work I am now taking my time and writing up some of the stories of my characters. The fire bearer, hydechild's story and sinner's. Quite a few are springing up. People at my work want me to open a story or something. I've told them i can't due to the fact that i'm not really pleased with anything i draw. its just too hard anymore.

adam told me that i need to find my own little niche with my style. been inspired alot lately by the digital motion comic version of the watchmen. i had read the graphic novel when our friend paco was living with us. he has just about every dc comic imaginable and all of the sand man comics. i read quite a few of what he had in his collection. they were enjoyable.

in other aspects of my life, my daughter just turned two and is just so amazing. my son is gonna be a fat little thing and that is alright too. i just got a new phone with a mini keyboard so any of my online friends that want to text me can cause i also got free texting. i need something to do on my lunch break lol though i usually play on my ds. so if you want my cell number to chit chat let me know. i'm trying to repair old bridges that might have been burned. seeing my great grandmother near death is making me remember how precious your friends and their lives are.

Been loving life for the most part. Got another new place. Its bigger and cheaper then the old place so lots of room for the kids. Also my cousin, who is the other black sheep of the family, lives upstairs and he is just so awesome. He and my hubby get along very well which is a nice change.

Artwise, I'm in a big big slump. I'm not happy with anything i produce and its cause its still way to anime oriented. I wish i had never used that to help draw. People at my work want me to start making shirts and bags and the like to sell but i don't feel ready for that step cause i don't like what i draw. The development is sup-par. Right now one of the few things that brings me joy is pro-wrestling. MMmmm....i actually had a dream where i was squeezed between jeff hardy and matt hardy. I really wish that matt had been there i don't like him as much as jeff...Ooohhh...jeff :3

In a few weeks my boyfriend, myself and our two children are going to be moving into a new home. Once again its an apartment but it is so large and beautiful. Hardwood floors through out and large bedrooms. It even has a washer and dryer. Another good thing about it is that my second cousin, Dougie/D, will be moving into the apartment above our own ^^ Unfortunately, this means we have to get rid of our two year jug, Chewy. He is marking in the house and is slightly aggressive to me and Vincent. We already have CPS after us because of a false charge and the social worker did say that if she comes by again and smells piss then we have to choose our kids or our pets. Maybe one day we will try for a dog that isn't so stubborn. We are considering a golden retriever since I was raised among them and they are so easy going and great with children.

Been back at work for a week as well. All of my co-workers have been so wonderful. They were happy to see me and they've been helping me get back into the swing of things. The only thing is that I miss my babies and I now have carpol tunnel so working on my computer there is hard. The laptop at my house is easy cause my wrists don't hang down but they do at work.

Got internet back up and running. Yay! lol Small update. On March 26th 2009, at 4:09 am, Vincent Casey VanGuilder was born. My labor was once again four hours and this time i didn't tear or anything so I healed alot faster. He's a pudgey little boy. We just have to be careful because he does have two small holes in his heart. You can hear it in his breathing. He's seeing a pedetric cardiologist in two months so hopefully they have healed on their own before then. Danu, my daughter, absolutely adores him. He's already rolled over in responce to her voice. I know that they are gonna have their fights but i can already see how close they are and are gonna be.

Also I know that my town of Binghamton has been on the news lately due to the mass murder. I was near that location on friday seeing as my apartment is just a few blocks away. We stayed in and waited it out. Couple of our friends who lived closer to the area came to our apartment so that they weren't in danger. We heard the helicopters and saw the lights and heard the shots. We have our gang wars here(bloods vs crypts) but nothing like this. Binghamton can be quite a nice little city. Mass killings just don't happen here.

I am no longer allowed to work due to the fact that i have started premature labor. I have contractions at least once a day and due to how fast my labor was with my daughter and the fact that i am only at 31 weeks, my doc pulled me. So now I am on bed rest and disability leave. Lemme tell ya. It blows!! I can't even drive myself to my own doc appointments. I feel so so useless. My mom's been real sweet about it all. If we need something, either her or my father is going to drive my hubby to go get it since I'm not allowed in the car. However, when we go to pick stuff out for the new baby (playpen and swing and stuff) I am going and no one can tell me otherwise.

Alot of stuff has been happening lately. One of my best friends quit her job at the place that i work at as well. She quit because she was wrongfully accused of something and even had witnesses to prove that she didn't do it but our boss, being the snide douche that he is, didn't want to hear it. My pregnancy is also giving me problems. I'm barely sleeping, have cramps and am getting chronic migraines. I still have a three months to go too so its really really hard. Oh well. I'm just going to be happy once I know that he's healthy and is able to survive outside of my womb.

On the art side of things, I've got a full sketchbook and a half that i need to scan in but i keep forgetting to hook up my scanner. I get to into WOW or other things and then don't remember until I'm back at work drawing. But I do promise you all art! And I also need to start drawing porn again but I'm having body issues with my pictures. The past week and half have sucked art wise. I haven't liked anything I've sketched out.

Its the holidays yet again. i hope everything is well with you and your own. Due to be me being sick most of last week am unable to provide a proper yule for my daughter. luckily my mother, out of the kindness of her heart, is helping me out with presents so that Danu has something to open this year. other then that hospital visit this second pregnancy is going fairly well. I will soon have my little boy to go with my little girl. i'm done having children after this one as well. at least until i am much much more stable in my situation. i'm gonna try to upload a bunch of stuff tomorrow if i get the chance to move my scanner and everything.